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Minimalist Houses, Maisons Minimalistes, Minimalistische Hauser (Evergreen Interiors)
Manufacturer: Evergreen ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 3822851450 |
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amazing book.......2006-11-10
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New Minimalist Houses
Anja Llorella Manufacturer: Collins Design ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060893168 Release Date: 2007-01-02 |
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New Minimalist Houses is a mixture of pureness of space, light and form, combined with functionality and flexibility. This book presents an all new selection of houses around the world that combine the clearness, simplicity and spirituality of minimalism, along with practical solutions that offer an enjoyable place to live in. Special attention is given to the treatment of materials, finishes and furniture will guide and inspire the reader.
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Sad.......2007-03-13
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Minimalist Interiors
Quim Rossell Manufacturer: Collins Design ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060829907 Release Date: 2005-08-23 |
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Drawing from cultural developments as diverse as modernist art and Asian philosophy, minimalism in interior design is nothing less than a celebration of the perfect expression of space.
Minimalist Interiors presents 26 examples of residences from around the world that perfectly balance essential elements of shape, light, and form to create truly unique living spaces. From a glass house to a house without walls, from an extention of a single-family home to apartment renovations, this book presents solutions and ideas for all types of residences. Interiors for every room in the house are included, in varying sizes, all from well-known architects and designers who specialize in minimalist treatment
Through exquisite photography, technical plans, and innovative design, Minimalist Interiors will inspire home design enthusiasts to achieve the same effects -- creating an intensely personal oasis of tranquility in their own home.
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okay text, horrible binding.......2007-08-23
Minimal book.......2001-06-22
Minimalist.......2001-03-13
Minimalist.......2001-03-13
Milimalist Interiors.......2000-04-12
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Minimalism DesignSource
Encarna Castillo Manufacturer: Collins Design ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060747986 Release Date: 2004-09-21 |
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The term Minimalism has not always been used in a favorable sense, especially in architecture, and even today it may be the cause of some confusion and ambiguity. The problem comes from the word's use in defining a creative current, school or trend when in fact it refers to an aesthetic. At the same time, this aesthetic is not chronologically well defined either and, moreover, interacts with different disciplines. This explains why we find minimalist buildings in periods very far apart from each other and in architects as different as Tadao Ando, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron or Luis Barragán, among others. Minimalism DesignSource investigates the minimalism movement, covering the last years of the decade of the 1990s and the first years of the twenty-first century to inquires into the origins of the term minimalism and in how the minimalism phenomenon played out in other fields like art, painting, fashion, and sculpture has affected minimalism in architecture, define the result of the use of pure and simple lines, the reduction of language elements and, as far as architecture is concerned, the investigation of the treatment of space and of building possibilities.
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Minimalist Houses
Linda Parker Manufacturer: Atrium Arto Editorial ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 8495692228 |
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Minimalism uses simplicity as an expression of aesthetic beauty and functionality. This book offers 24 recent residential designs showcasing ideas of architects including the Katleman residence in Los Angeles. Readers will find both solutions and inspiration for their own houses in this imaginative new collection.
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minimally impressed.......2004-11-16
so this is minimalist architecture...........2003-03-30
This is a good coffee table book. However, if this is what minimalist architecture is then it might not be for the typical future home builder looking for unique but livable concepts (ala the not so big house). The homes all seem to have the look and feel of art museums and waiting rooms.
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The Anti-minimalist House
Massimo Listri Manufacturer: Umberto Allemandi & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8842214787 |
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Lofts Minimalistas/Minimalist Lofts
Aurora Cuito Manufacturer: Asppan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8489439559 |
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Minimalist Interiors
Guillermo Kliczkowski Manufacturer: Galgiani, Phillip ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9879778162 |
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Minimalist Interiors
Laura O'Bryan Manufacturer: Atrium Publishers Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8495692988 |
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Minimalist Lofts
Aurora Cuito Manufacturer: HarperCollins Design International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060087587 Release Date: 2002-05-14 |
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Minimalist Lofts presents a resplendent selection of international lofts that stand out for their pure lines and hard-hitting designs. The creators of these projects-among some of today's most prestigious architects-have converted industrial spaces into homes, offices, and shops. The luxury of these beautiful lofts is the perception of space, in which a few clever decisions bring out the best in the finishes and detailing. Filled with 370 dazzling full-color photos, this valuable book also features clear, descriptive text; detailed layouts and drawings by the designers themselves; and 45 architectural plans. Whether one is an architect, interior designer, contractor, or loft owner, Minimalist Lofts is a never-ending source of ideas!Customer Reviews:
great combination.......2003-07-16
Is there an echo in here?.......2002-09-22
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Direct Stone Sculpture: A Guide to Technique and Creativity
Milt Liebson Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0887403050 |
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The ancient and wonderful art of direct stone sculpture is brought to life in this comprehensive new book by the noted sculptor, Milt Liebson. After a brief, informative historical overview of stone sculpture, he leads the reader through the hands-on experience of sculpting in stone. This is the book that artists and would-be artists in stone have been seeking for many years.The types of stone used in sculpture are covered, as well as the basic tools for hand sculpting and the techniques for their use. For the advanced sculptor there is detailed information on power tools and their use, the methods of lamination and repair, the business side of stone sculpture, and other helpful information gleaned from years of experience.
Detailed photographs take the readers from the rough stone to the polished and mounted piece.
Direct Stone Sculpture promises to be the standard reference work in the field for years to come.
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The book will help me reshape the Andes Mountain!!.......2007-01-10
Direct Stone Sculpture.......2006-11-19
Indispensible.......2002-10-01
Why? Almost the entire book is devoted to the craft and mechanics of carving stone. Liebson looks like someone's dad, and writes like it, too -- this book eschews all discussion of "art" in favor of simple, practical advice on "how to do it." From selecting a stone and tools to using and caring for those tools to finishing, polishing, mounting, and displaying your sculpture, even to gaining exhibitions and marketing your work, Liebson covers absolutely everything you need to know to get started, and to keep going. I've been carving for over five years now, and I still refer constantly to this book.
Excellent book on direct stone sculpture.......1999-07-29
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Direct Stone Sculpture. A Guide To Technique And Creativity.
Milt Liebson Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KIV40M |
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Listen to the Trees
John Sexton Manufacturer: Bulfinch Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0821219529 |
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Excellent Book.......2002-08-09
The Next Ansel Adams.......1998-08-12
Excellent Large Format B&W photographs of Aspens, trees.......1998-08-06
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Listen to the Trees: Jews and the Earth
Molly Cone Manufacturer: Urj Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0807405361 Release Date: 1995-10-01 |
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Using Torah texts and traditional Jewish stories as a basis, this book for intermediate grades presents an exploration of ecology and the interconnectedness of all life on earth. Stories, cartoons, and full-color illustrations.A Feldman Library Fund publication
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Listen for the Fig Tree
Sharon Bell Mathis Manufacturer: Puffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0140343644 |
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A beautiful book.......2005-11-21
This book had no plot.......1999-05-26
A rich story about love,family,committment, & courage!.......1997-07-12
Excellent account blind teenager in inner city stress.......1996-08-09
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The Days of the Banyan Tree (Read & Listen)
Madhur Jaffrey Manufacturer: BBC Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0563347643 |
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Listen for the Fig Tree
Sharon Bell Mathis Manufacturer: Avon Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000J3I48S |
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Listen to the talking trees
Addie Scheve Manufacturer: Norfolk Printing Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0960941819 |
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Listen to the Trees
Eugene Scherley Manufacturer: Noble House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1561673145 |
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Poems that touch the soul of humanity, in all its moods........1999-01-05
This book warms your heart........1998-03-09
This book warms your soul. I didn't want to put it down........1998-02-20
A very heartfelt and comforting book of poems. Give me more!.......1998-01-25
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Listen to the Trees
Don Maccaskill Manufacturer: Luath Press Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0946487650 |
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From one of Scotland's foremost naturalists, conservationists, and wildlife photographers comes a beautiful and acutely observed account of how Don MacCaskill's outlook on life began to change as trees, woods, forests, and all the wonders that they contain became a focus in his life. It is rich in its portrayal of the life that moves in the Caledonian forest and on the moorlands -- lofty twig-stacked heronries, the elusive peregrine falcon and the red, bushy-tailed fox -- of the beauty of the trees, and of those who worked in the forests.
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Listen to the Trees: Jews and the Earth
Gavriel Goldman Manufacturer: Urj Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0807405590 |
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Using Torah texts and traditional Jewish stories as a basis, this book for intermediate grades presents an exploration of ecology and the interconnectedness of all life on earth. Stories, cartoons, and full-color illustrations.
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The Banyan Tree
Christopher Nolan Manufacturer: audible.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Download Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000547MY |
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Winner of the 1987 Whitbread Award for Under the Eye of the Clock, Christopher Nolan has now fashioned an extraordinary epic set in rural Ireland. The Banyan Tree spans three generations of O'Briens, who own a small dairy farm in Westmeath. For years, alas, the family has seen its ranks diminish. Minnie O'Brien's husband is long dead and her three children scattered in a typical Irish diaspora--Brendan is a priest in Africa, Sheila a nurse in London, and Frankie an Australian sheepshearer and oddjobber around the globe. In the meantime, Minnie stubbornly clings to her life, her five fields, and her memories, which take root like a banyan tree and feed her lonely old age.In many ways, The Banyan Tree is a conventional tale of births and deaths, weddings and funerals, all set against the land and the lure of emigration. What makes it unusual is Nolan's flexible, fickle, and often fantastical language. Not only does he use colloquialisms to locate the characters very specifically, but he brings verbs, nouns, and adjectives to sparkling life by allowing them to change places at will. The butter churn is a "druidic dark drum" that comes "Sundaying into life." On the day after Minnie's wedding, the "morning songed the reading of the streets." Even a description of a sleeping baby erupts into Joycean music:
Breathing soundlessly, the baby slept as though he had been there since the house was built. Waves of tenderness winked from her immaculate eyes as she facted where her baby but slept away his drabness.... His minutes were building into hours and his plumbed hours were nearing that transom hour, that bragging hour, when he might bubble burst just to hymn his daylong lifetime.Nolan's alliterations and galloping hyphenation evoke not only Joyce but the whimsical beauty of Gerard Manley Hopkins. And like Hopkins, he can sometimes overindulge his penchant for verbal shenanigans. But while the author's circumlocutions may clog the narrative from time to time, The Banyan Tree nonetheless works up to a moving climax, and offers a surfeit of linguistic riches along the way. --Cherry Smyth
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C. Nolan: An artist at work.......2002-11-21
Today's Answer to James Joyce.......2002-05-06
There might be some inaccuracies in the time and the dates in the story line, but with the prose, and literary style of Mr. Nolan, the reader floats through this wonderful book.
The lush prose of a simple woman's life.......2002-03-20
From the start, Minnie and Peter O'Brien form a love match that sustains them through the years, raising three children. Brendan, the first-born, is enamored of a life in the Church, begun as a missionary, leading ultimately to a position as a Bishop. Their daughter, Sheila, has set down her own roots in England, established her own family. And the youngest O'Brien, Frankie, has heard the siren-call of wanderlust, impatient to begin his vague pursuit of worldly travel. Each of the O'Brien children step impulsively into their own futures, but of all, Minnie's heart refuses to relinquish the hope that Frankie, the prodigal son, will one day return. Into her eighth decade, she wills her aching bones and weary mind to keep moving through the daily necessities of their small farm, frequently lost in reverie, dancing over the fields of yesterday, reliving the passions of her youth.
THE BANYAN TREE pulses with extravagant language, reforming archaic definitions, rendering sentences fresh and beautiful as the Emperor's New Clothes. The pages resonate with a passion for life, the intransigence of beauty, and, of course, the ultimate expectation of forgiveness. Don't read this book unless you love the taste of words on your tongue, or the turn of phrase as sensitive as a lover's glance that spreads across your face like fire. This novel is a treasure for those with an insatiable thirst for the road less traveled, the impulse to scale walls of words that become fanciful towers of impossible heights... and, as well, a willingness to abandon reasoning to genius.
Hurrah for purple prose.......2002-03-18
If you don't like poetry you won't like this book!.......2001-07-24
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Flying Can Be Fun
Michael Kilian Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0882894498 |
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The A to Z of flying jargon is the subject of Flying Can Be Fun, a humorous look at the world of flight. Award-winning cartoonist Dick Locher has teamed up with award-winning humorist Michael Kilian to create the funniest illustrated dictionary of flight lingo available anywhere. A is for aerial, "that part of the aircraft most frequently broken off during walk-around pre-flight inspection to see if anything is broken off." C is for coordinates, "flying clothing worn by fashionable female pilots." G is for ground speed, "what airspeed becomes upon landing." I is for icing, "what frequently happens to pilots who think that flying through winter thunderstorms is a piece of cake." S is for spin, "what makes the world go 'round when you're looking at it directly through a windscreen." And W is for wilco, "Roger's last name," of course.
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Flying Can Be Fun
Frank Veskrna Manufacturer: Northwest Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1569013381 |
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Flying Can Be Fun: A Guide for the White-Knuckled Flyer
Edie Grande Manufacturer: Dyenamiks, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0962698008 |
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Informative, humorous and interesting book for hite-knuckled flyers. Covers all the bases about flying. What noises are normal' aerdynamiks in laymans terms. tips hints tricks for traveling with kids, elderly handicapped, fearful flyers' Relaxation exercises, medications and clinic names and addresses around the USA who help phobic flyers.Customer Reviews:
I carry it like my Bible every time I fly!! Informative,.......1998-02-19
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Fantastic Flying Fun with Science: 69 Projects You Can Fly, Spin, Launch, and Ri
Ed Sobey Manufacturer: Tandem Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: School & Library Binding ASIN: 0613715306 |
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